Sierra Leone Civil War 1991-2001
In 1991 Mohamed and his cohort Samih Osailly organized Sierra Leone's Lebanese diamond traders for the purpose of trafficking the blood diamonds acquired by the from the mines the occupied in Sierra Leone.
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